ProfessorNick Hopkinson
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
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- Professor of Respiratory MedicineNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Muscle Lab, South Block, Royal Brompton Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Nick Hopkinson is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College as well as an Honorary Consultant Chest Physician at The Royal Brompton Hospital. He qualified in Medicine at Cambridge and The London Hospital Medical College and went on to train in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine at St George’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is clinical lead for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at The Royal Brompton Hospital where he runs the Advanced COPD clinic
Key areas of activity are the effective management and prevention of COPD focussing on novel lung volume reduction techniques, physiological assessment of skeletal muscle, physical activity and lung function, together with the promotion of high value treatment strategies and tobacco control.
He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians, an Invited Specialist of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group and has served on the Council of The British Thoracic Society and chaired the BTS COPD Specialist Advisory Group.
He is Chair of Action on Smoking and Health, ASH(UK).
He is online editor of the journal Thorax and blogs regularly for the British Medical Journal and elsewhere.
He served on the NICE COPD guidelines committee.
He is Medical Director of Asthma Lung UK and appears regularly in print and broadcast media (including Newsnight, Today and Radio 4’s Inside Health).
Follow @COPDdoc
Key areas of activity are the effective management and prevention of COPD focussing on novel lung volume reduction techniques, physiological assessment of skeletal muscle, physical activity and lung function, together with the promotion of high value treatment strategies and tobacco control.
He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians, an Invited Specialist of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group and has served on the Council of The British Thoracic Society and chaired the BTS COPD Specialist Advisory Group.
He is Chair of Action on Smoking and Health, ASH(UK).
He is online editor of the journal Thorax and blogs regularly for the British Medical Journal and elsewhere.
He served on the NICE COPD guidelines committee.
He is Medical Director of Asthma Lung UK and appears regularly in print and broadcast media (including Newsnight, Today and Radio 4’s Inside Health).
Follow @COPDdoc
DEGREES
- PhD, MedicineImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 May 2005 - 1 May 2005
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Respiratory Medicine